you guys! I wondered whether "over the hill" cakes are know or rather are common in the UK? I know them from the US, but in Germany, for example, they are pretty unheard of... also decorating everything in black and such for the birthday?

Another British person here who has no idea what an over the hill cake is. Please do enlighten us :)

_________________"Your mother was a superstitious hamster, and your father smelled of elderberry (right before he died of an untreated infection). Now go away, before we taunt you with your credulous magical thinking a second time!" - Desdemona

I dont know whether it's still done in the US, but when I was living there end of the 90s (damn I feel old!) a colleague of mine turned 50 and her cubicle was decorated with black Ballons and she got a graveyard cake and one colleague even dressed up as the grim reaper.